If a recent study by personal-finance website WalletHub is any indication, most folks won’t be establishing a family in the Magnolia state.

In the site’s report on 2018’s Best & Worst States to Raise a Family, Mississippi ranked next-to-last as one of the worst states to start a family. In its study, WalletHub measured each of the 50 states across 42 key indicators of family-friendliness.

Massachusetts and Minnesota ranked as the top two states to start a family, while New Mexico was rated as the worst. New York, California, Nebraska and Iowa also cracked the top 10.

Those indicators ranged from family salary to housing affordability to unemployment rate. At 6.15 percent, Mississippi has the lowest average annual cost of early childcare, which is 2.3 times lower than that of New York (14.12 percent).

Mississippi also had the highest infant mortality rate, the highest number of impoverished families and the fourth-highest divorce rate.

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